HOUSES EVERYWHERE
Brochures! How I miss thee. Going through previous work samples, looking at the stunning property and remembering designing and mocking these up. Really can’t beat a good solid day working on layouts. I know many who would disagree and would rather spend the day on illustrious web work, but there is something so satisfying designing...
THE CANNELLONI RAT
I got a request of drawing a cannelloni rat.. it ran brilliant through my mind and et voila I present to you an explosion of rats!!
PAPER CASTLE PRESS FALL NEWS
Bang at the end of Fall/beginning of Winter, the Paper Castle Press Fall Newsletter is out. If you don’t know what this is yet, read here! I am always happy producing these 4 times a year, the 4th to come soon before the year ends. Filled with news from PCP, inspiring quotes and breathe-easy pictures,...
AZTEC COLOUR
Inspired by yesterdays post, today I ditched the go-to pen of choice, the black felt tip, and went straight to colouring without borders. Don’t think I’ve ever done this actually; I’ve always enjoyed the boundary that black lines give me, feels like shelter. But today, having walked through the Bristol Zombie walk in the rain,...
AZTEC INSPIRED
New tattoo ideas for a friend of mine, i.e. tattoo number three.. exciting indeed, awaiting by the door for my black ink to arrive to get started. Might practice lettering on myself before anything else; get more to grips with handling the gun. Love these; I think they’d look ace medium sized, on the slight...
SIGN PAINTING
Hand painted bar menu for a wedding. Well, chalkpen painted roses, and with the white running out; a dry pen nib + white acrylic paint for the lettering!! Good ol’ fun, especially on half wet blackboard paint. What’s the point of anything if it’s not a challenge aye?
GIG POSTER
A late posting yes, I am aware the 20th of October has indeed passed us, but the time flew by and I forgot to pop it up here on my blog till I physically saw a printed version up and thought ‘Oh! Yes! I really liked that poster..’. The Mow wanted something primarily pink and...
PAPER CASTLE PRESS’S SUMMER
An exciting 2nd seasons newsletter for the delightful Paper Castle Press. The design process was more seamless and ideas and layout thought was fluid, as the base template was already agreed and sorted with the start of the newsletter send outs in Spring 2011. I enjoy working with these html newsletters; each time I learn...
LIVE MUSIC
The brief was simple, the text was minimal – sometimes these are the briefs that are my favourite to work on. The time, ideas and space are most spent solely on the graphics, and there is room to play around without the restrictions of big blocks of text. I wanted the poster to grab attention,...
CHALK PENS
Playing with chalk pens over the past few days, finishing up their location boards. Brilliant fun with brand new chalk pens, and a big arrow in the middle of the board to fill up with patterns galore. The slightly grey and rainy day added to the fun; being snuggly in a thick jumper drawing away,...
WEEKENDER
The Barley Mow is having a mini festival again and this time I present to you the Dings Weekender! As usual, its a barrage of fun; weather permitting..The poster was pretty fun to do for this, I much likey doing hand-drawn work instead of using the computer.. it feels more real. More painstaking, but it’s...
BASHEROO
The Barley Mow’s 3rd birthday poster! Something I should have posted before the 21st of May.. ahem. Nevertheless it was a success from what I hear, groans and all. This flyer really stood out when it was put against a surface- tables, walls, chairs, bar tops, the print job was awesome and the colours popped....
A CASTLEY LETTER
I am excited to finally be able to let you all know of a project I have been working on. I’ve had such fun designing Paper Castle Press’s first ever newsletter, and working with Castle Leader Sophie. Love how it came together – clean, simple but with a rip roaring piratey RARR, bringing to you...
WEDDING BELLS
The most talked about wedding of the year. I was requested to draw something up for the street party The Barley Mow is putting on for the celebrations. Live music, apple bobbing, cake stands, and pretty much a whole day (11am-midnight) of fun fun fun. Pop on by if you’re Bristol based, it’ll be a...
PROPSITE
There are plenty of online fashion sites around and from having about 50 that I follow on my Google Reader list, the best ones are always the most simple. They focus on the content and don’t distract your eyes with too much going-ons in the sidebars, too many columns, complicated menus and far too long...
VENUE
This is another, more businessey looking business ad for South West Magazine. It is one of the magazines by Venue Publishing. Which is my intro to the sad news that Venue magazine has shut down. Having been Bristol’s entertainment and listings magazine since 1982, a decline in circulation and increase in printing prices have made...
SAY IT
An ad for South West Business that I mocked up when on my Venue placement. The magazine is targeted at businesses in this region of the UK, connecting people and keeping everyone up to date with what’s going on. The advertisement is to invite industry experts to have their own regular column in the magazine...
VENUE MAG
I’ll be adding some examples of work to the site this week of some advertisements that I worked on on my placement with Venue Magazine a few weeks back. It was good fun, and made me realise that I sort of miss working in an office, having regular lunches, random short bursts of chat, and...
WOOD
‘This song makes me feel as if I was lost in a deep forest’. My idea for this poster design came from that line in the movie. I used colours to capture the romance and melancholy of this story. The deep hues of pinks, yellows, blues and greens represent the exciting and glowing feelings of...
MAGAZINE
I was featured in Digital Arts magazine last year. Thought I’d share it with those of you who haven’t yet had the chance to see it! A copy is sat right here on my bookshelf, collecting a fair bit of dust.. yes, internet shelving is sometimes better than in real life. Click here for a...
FINGERY
An album cover for Jimmy the Fingers. Happy electronicy juicy dancy music. You gotta love it. His new album drops sometime this year too and judging by the tracks that I’ve heard so far in their unfinished state, it’s something to look forward to.
MURRAY’S
A van graphic for a friend of mine who has his own design+build business. He was after something that had the feel of an old school mechanic shop’s sign along with a caricature of him wielding a hammer. This was to be hand painted on either side of his rust coloured van. In the end...
